Mises Wire

One of the great myths about the capitalist system is the presumption that businessmen make profits at the expense of the consumers and workers in society. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Mises Daily Thursday:

Politicians are telling us that we need the government to ensure "neutrality" in how broadband resources are allocated. However, not only is neutrality in allocation impossible, the effort to do so only hands more power over to the politicians while rendering consumers powerless.

Federal spending has soared by almost 20 percent since 2008. Yet, to hear Mr. Obama, one would think federal employees are forced to sell pencils on Constitution Avenue to raise funds to finance their bureaucratic salvation missions.

Jim Rogers has advocated buying farmland and agricultural commodities for years, but what of the current struggles faced by farmers in a time of high rents and falling commodity prices.

When it comes to writing articles, not all topics are created equal. 

Despite the many illustrious forerunners in its six-hundred year prehistory, Carl Menger (1840-1921) was the true and sole founder of the Austrian school of economics proper. He merits this title if for no other reason than that he created the system of value and price theory that constitutes the core of Austrian economic theory.

Over  at EPJ Bob Wenzel offers an interest

Mises Daily Wednesday: The ideal reform is always the elimination of the Fed and other central banks. But given the fact that Austrians understand the monetary system better than others, it's important that Austrians also seek to limit the harm the Fed is doing through less-than-ideal reforms.

Once upon a time, the Chinese were the enemies of private property rights and free markets, and the Americans were the enemies of the Chinese and purported to cherish the institutions that the Chinese hated. Today no such clear-cut difference exists. If anything, today’s Chinese in high places seem to be more inclined to say kind words about private property rights and the free market than are comparably placed Americans.

In this audio interview, economist and former Mises Fellow Shawn Ritenour, and author of Foundations of Economics: a Christian View, breaks down how markets work.